Police arrested on Friday a supporter of fugitive Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir in the southern coastal city of Sidon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Security forces found on Mustafa K.'s mobile phone slogans and photos supporting the extremist Islamic State group, NNA said.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim visited on Friday the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to extend his condolences over the death of a Spanish peacekeeper last week.

Ibrahim met with UNIFIL Commander Maj. Gen. Luciano Portolano at the mission's base in the southern town of Naqoura.

Inspectors from the ministry of health sealed with red wax three butcheries in central Bekaa for failing to acquire the minimum health standards, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

Two butcheries in al-Fayda area in the eastern city of Zahle were raided by the inspectors, who decided to shut them down after issuing several warnings for their owners to rectify the conditions of their butcheries.

A meeting was held Thursday night in Bkirki between Bishop Boulos Sayyah and the representatives of the Christian parties to discuss the row over the filling of Port of Beirut’s fourth basin.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Friday, the meeting was attended by law experts from the Kataeb party, Tashnag party and the Marada Movement, in addition to the representative of those who are affected by the filling of the basin.

The authorities have foiled a plot by militants from Syria to create a passage to West Bekaa, the South and the North to establish their planned emirate on Lebanese territories, As Safir daily reported Friday.

The newspaper said that the authorities have intercepted conversations and seized documents from extremist groups that revealed a plot to open the passage to the West Bekaa area through the Majdal Anjar Valley and to the South so that they could reach areas where Palestinian camps are located.

Complications rose on the possibility of opening an extraordinary session for Parliament due to the bickering of blocs over the ongoing presidential vacuum and the absence of urgent draft-laws.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday that “a wide spectrum of Christian MPs are convinced that there is no necessity to open an extraordinary session for the parliament before the election of a new head of state.”

French Ambassador Patrice Paoli has denied that Paris was drafting a U.N. Security Council Resolution against Hizbullah as a top official in New York warned that the situation in the border area between Lebanon and Israel remains “very fragile.”

France “calls for the protection of Lebanon's sovereignty, its territorial integrity and Resolution 1701,” Paoli said in remarks published in An Nahar daily on Friday.

The embassy of a Gulf country was advised to step up its security measures and take maximum precautions to avert a double suicide bombing by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Friday, security agencies obtained information that ISIL is planning to target the Gulf embassy, which was not specified, with a double suicide bombing.

An unknown person has raped a nine-year-old boy at a school in the northern district of Akkar.

The state-run National News Agency reported Thursday that “Fatima A. M. filed a report at the Halba police department claiming that an unknown person had raped her 9-year-old son Kamel H.”

The border area facing the southern town of Kfarkila witnessed “unusual” Israeli military activity on Thursday, which was monitored by the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers.

“The area opposite Kfarkila witnessed unusual Israeli military activity this afternoon,” Lebanon's National News Agency reported.